The present-day GOP leadership seem to cheapen, corrupt and make dirty
whatever they touch. They have nothing to impeach Obama with, so they
are inventing something.
The Democrats, on the other hand, had every reason -- in fact, it was their
duty -- to impeach the likes of Bush, Cheney & Co.
Examples: (1) for lying our nation into a war for profit against Iraq, and
(2) for outing a secret agent for the sake of personal revenge. These are
only two examples out of many others, and both of them are acts of
treason. But the Democrats made it a point to put impeachment "off the
table." Was this done for the good of our country? Hardly! I think it
helped to make the Right-Wingers only stronger and more daring in their
schemes to break national laws for their own profit, and at the expense
of our average, everyday citizens -- who make up the vast majority of
our nation.
Many think there is no point in impeaching the top politicians, because they
will never be found guilty. The important point escapes these people. Let's
take as an example Bush's lying our nation into war with Iraq, a small but
oil-rich country of some 25 million people. Just think of the daily exposure
in all the news media for weeks, if not months, of all the details of lies, of oil
corporations' dirty deals in making more profit by hook and by crook, with
the resulting deaths of thousands of young Americans and tens of
thousands coming home with serious life-long injuries. Then think of the
near-total destruction of the infra-structure of Iraq. Some 2 million
Iraqis managed to escape the war by becoming unwelcome refugees in
neighboring countries, another 2 million became displaced people with no
homes. Over 1 million men, women and children were innocent people
killed in the cross-fire. And all this in a nation of only 25 million!
The devastation was nearly total. And Iraq was the most advanced nation
in that part of the world before this war began. They had women who were
professionals and university professors. How many Muslim nations could
say the same thing?
All of the above would have been seen on TV every day by the entire nation.
Fox news, Limbaugh, O'Reilley & Co.'s lies and distortions would have
become destructive to themselves. Masses of Republicans, who never knew
anything of the above, would then have begun to learn the truth for the
first time. Many would have left their party. The Republicans would have
had to change. Perhaps the Neocons, who had usurped the power of the
former old-time Republican leadership, would, themselves, have been thrown
out. I can imagine the Republican masses, who had been fooled, would now
demand their expulsion.
Finding Bush, Cheney & Co. guilty or not during the impeachment trial is
actually quite unimportant. What really mattered was that all Americans
-- both Democrats and Republicans -- would have learned the truth. Right-
Wingers would never have been able to lie their way out of what would have
been on TV for the whole world to see day after day!! Denying what would
have been before the American people's eyes would no longer serve them.
I feel quite sure that the Republican Party, if it should still have existed as
a party, would have been quite different from the one that it is today.
Corporatists and Neocons would have been out, and and the Tea Party
would never even have come into being.
And all the nonsense that our nation is facing today would never have
happened at all.
Yes, there is so much evil on the part of the Right-Wingers, and so much
stupidity on the parts of both Democrats. and Republicans.
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